Voter excitement

I went with Guy to vote today in the Texas primary. Obviously, we were voting early.

The news media and the blogs have been talking about how busy this primary has been in early voting - from the harrisvotes.com website, here is how busy...

Through last night, 114,473 people have early voted in Harris County.

In the 2004 primary election, 160,904 total people voted. That means that through yesterday, nearly as many people have voted early as voted at all in the 2004 primary.

In the 2006 General Election, 601,186 total people voted. In the 2004 General Election, 1,088,793 total people voted.

If you're circulating that schlock about Obama

That schlock specifically that Obama isn't patriotic, here are some points for you to consider, courtesy of Bill in Portland Maine, whom I think is so awesome that I give him money every month to keep writing.

Bill's words:

Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday
by Bill in Portland Maine
Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 04:51:51 AM PST

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE...

Poll questions CNN should ask next

Sunday the Most Trusted Name in News asked on its homepage: "Does Barack Obama show the proper patriotism for someone who wants to be president of the United States?"

Here are some other poll questions they should ask:

When George W. Bush puts his hand over his stomach during the national anthem, he seems to be signaling that America is a piece of chewed-up food headed straight for the crapper. Is this proper patriotism?
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Mike Huckabee says the Constitution needs to be amended to reflect God's standards, including, we assume, stonings for adultery. Is this proper patriotism?
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John McCain says we should stay in Iraq for a thousand years "as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed," even though anyone with a pulse knows that Americans (not to mention innocent Iraqis) are still being wounded and killed over there every day and will continue to be killed and wounded for as long as we're there. Does McCain show the proper patriotism by advocating this kind of head-in-the-sand foreign policy?
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When a Republican politician wears an American flag pin on their lapel that was made in Communist China, does this show the proper patriotism?
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When President Bush says "we do not torture," and we find out that we really do torture, is this proper patriotism?
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When Republicans try to scare Americans half to death by lying about the ramifications of the expiration of the "Protect America Act," is this proper patriotism?
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When the White House guts the Fourth Amendment by enlisting the phone companies to abet the most blatant and illegal form of warrantless eavesdropping and then demanding retroactive immunity for them, is this proper patriotism?
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When the vice president tells a senior United States senator to "Go fuck yourself" on the Senate floor, is this proper patriotism?
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When a United States senator grabs a microphone and calls a brown-skinned American citizen "Macaca," and a crowd of his Republican supporters laughs and applauds, is this proper patriotism?
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When one of the most prominent Republican lobbyists working in Washington says the United States government should be "drowned in the bathtub," is this proper patriotism?

Gosh, I could come up with these all day long. Take the poll.

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Peak oil news round up

A fun peak oil news round up.

Had some fun this weekend - Friday night went to see the Carmina Burana at Houston Symphony, which was great - probably the best thing I've ever seen at Houston Symphony. Saturday I hung out with Bram, had the new sofa/love seat delivered, then went to see Joe Rogan with the str8 man I'm hopelessly in love with. Yesterday was all church, and then had a handyman over to put together my new garage shelves and plan out my courtyard remodel.

Pictures!!